A thin opening, or slit, in something, used for receiving something, such as a coin or letter. You can put postcards and letters in the mail slot at the post office. Likewise, you can slot a DVD into your Blu-ray player or a CD into your iPod. (As a verb, it also means ‘to slide into place’, as in She slotted the new filter into the machine.)
A game where you insert cash or, in ticket-in, ticket-out machines, a paper ticket with a barcode into a designated slot on the machine to activate its reels and earn credits based on a winning combination of symbols. Slots come in many different styles, themes, rules, and bonus rounds.
In modern games, you can find out about a slot’s pay table and bonus features by looking at its rules section on the website. The pay table will show how much you can win for landing matching symbols on a payline, and will also explain any extra ways to land wins beyond the traditional paylines.
Bonus rounds are a great way to add more excitement and variety to your slot play, and they’re normally easy to trigger. The rules for each bonus round will be explained in a clear and concise way, and you’ll usually be told how to activate the feature. Depending on the slot, it could be anything from a free spins round to a mystery pick game or random win multiplier sequence.